- #1 Respawn Man
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 46 reviews2015
Dev: Evan (Solidplasma) PeiperlPub: Solidplasma Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
What kills you makes you stronger! Use your extra lives to solve puzzles in this delightfully morbid puzzle platformer with a soundtrack by VVVVVV's composer, Souleye!
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #2 Dawn of the Plow
96% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2015
Dev: Dan FitzGerald
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
You are the new plow on the block, and today is your day. How many cars can you shepherd home before achieving grounds for termination?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #3 ASCII Attack
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: Daisy Maze Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A Cold War super computer has gone rogue and is printing launch codes for a first strike. There is only one way to prevent nuclear Armageddon; enter the dot matrix, collect the codes, and defeat the ASCII army. ASCII Attack is a retro style indie action title inspired by arcade games of yesteryear.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #4 Paperbound
94% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Dissident Logic
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Run with scissors and walk on walls in this award-winning local-multiplayer gravity battle arena game from the mind of a former Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer. Enter the pages of old books where you will find strange environments and a cabal of playable characters.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #5 Operation KREEP
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Magic Item Tech
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
An extraterrestrial organism threatens deep space exploration missions! Only trained personnel working as a team can eliminate these infestations. But, the corporation financing the space endeavor has a private mail for you: Cold hard cash for the alien alive! Which side will you choose?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #6 Fist's Elimination Tower
93% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Impostor Cat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A 2D platformer in which you play as randomly generated contestants that have to bounce their way to the top of an obstacle course full of robots, electric currents, explosives, and fists.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #7 Ride the Bullet
91% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Jordan Sendar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a gun for hire with nothing to your name but your rifle and a single bullet. You have a special gift. You can control this bullet. Your objectives: take jobs, kill, build your reputation, and work your way up the crime ladder.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #8 Beyond the Wizard
89% matchMixed61% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: EJB StudioPub: Team ShockdriveR
Windows
This is a 2D action hardcore flatformer game. Get into the simple but difficult world of Beyond the Wizard! If you have enough patience, this game will not be difficult!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #9 Get Over Here
91% matchMixed49% of 41 reviews2015
Dev: Reload Games StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
GET OVER HERE is a fast paced battle arena game! Choose one of the 12 over the top characters and get ready to PULL and FINISH all your enemies!! No one to play locally? Go online and try to beat the best players worldwide!
Why similar: Action 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #10 Spellcastia
90% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Node Viar
Windows
Spellcastia is a magical shooter designed specifically for VR. Its main feature is the use of active gesticulation to invoke a spell, so you get a deeper dive into the virtual reality and the world where magic rules.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #11 Drop Out 0
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Ward Dehairs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Drop Out 0 is an online first person shooter with a twist: there are no hitpoints! Beat your opponents by knocking them out of the map with various crazy weapons. The game features very straightforward, cross-platform multiplayer. Just download, set up and play online within 2 minutes.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #12 Banshee Force
87% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Sapphire Software Inc
Windows
Banshee Force is a virtual reality game where you command the legendary Banshee Force Weapons Platform. Standing in the middle of a planetary battle you use the weapons platform to stop the invaders and build a defense that can outlast the enemy.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #13 Swap! Swap! Swap!
89% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Kryper
Windows · Linux
Swap! Swap! Swap! is a fast paced top down shooter with a twist, you can only fire once so keep swapping those weapons!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #14 GOLDRUSHERS
86% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2017
Dev: UnNaturalism Inc.
Windows · Mac
A Goldrush themed local multiplayer brawler for PC and Mac!Play as two competing prospectors trying to fill your safes with precious gold nuggets or other items of value.GOLDRUSHERS will provide fast paced action, wacky antics, and flying horses for your living room.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #15 Silentium 2D
85% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Pub: Frentwick Indie
Windows
Silentium 2D is a fun, classy, arcade based game which puts you and a friend in a 1v1 arena. Inspired by various arcade games, Silentium 2D was a hobby project designed to let younger audiences get their hands on a keyboard and quickly learn the intuitive controls.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #16 The Pit
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero KnowledgePub: Zero Knwoledge
Windows
The Pit is a platform game with touches of action and puzzles, which will force you to understand and know how to use all the skills you have.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #17 PROJECT VELOCITY
84% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2018
Dev: Omnirift
Windows · Mac · Linux
PROJECT VELOCITY is a Bullet Hell and Endless Runner where the speed never stops rising, and the obstacles never stop coming. Fight and cruise your way through obstructions and bosses with ever-increasing difficulty!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #18 Zig
86% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Scumways
Windows · Mac · Linux
50 levels of fast-paced, old school, arcade blasting.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #19 Oval
80% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: Reactor HeartPub: Reactor Heart
Windows
Oval takes your skills to a whole new level with thrilling and competitive multiplayer battles. Break your speed limit and go faster than ever without motion-sickness thanks to Oval's unique technology. Create, share or play awesome community maps using the multiplayer level editor.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #20 Space Slam
83% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #21 Gunnihilation
82% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Robo Pixel Games
Windows
Ultraviolent bullet-hell platformer Gunnihilation is dual stick 16-bit mayhem that fuses several forms of 2D shoot 'em up, from run-and-gun classics like Contra and Metal Slug, to the arena-based slaughter of Smash TV.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #22 Pleasure in Dream
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Upineleed
Windows
Today, will you listen to this small story?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #23 Spin the Beat
84% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: Clockwork Anomaly, LLC
Windows · Mac
Jump-n-dodge couch-multiplayer arcade action to the beat of the music! A party game for 1 to 4 players.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #24 Ducks in Space
78% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Happy Cow Games LLC
Windows
Ducks in Space is a 2D platformer where you play as Captain Quackers, a duck attempting to thwart the plans of the most evil creatures in the universe: geese!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #25 Robot King Part 2: Boss Battles
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Steven Taylor
Windows
The second in a 3 part series, Robot King Part 2 continues the journey of a robot on a quest to find his place in a kingdom where everyone seems bent on his destruction. "Robot King 2: Boss Battles" is as the name indicates: a series of boss battles.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #26 Dawn of the Robot Empire
81% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows
Witness first hand the Dawn of the Robot Empire. Can you stop the invading robotic forces from another galaxy? Blast your way to victory in this retro sci-fi shooter. You'll need fast reflexes and an accurate aim to win.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #27 Reckpunk
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: dlan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reckpunk is a platformer/endless runner where you control level elements rather than the main characters.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #28 Mischief On Main Street
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Games
Windows
Lie and bluff your way to victory in this online multiplayer VR game inspired by the likes of Mafia and Trouble in Terrorist Town!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #29 CrazyHousePlanes
81% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Peter Manfreda
Windows
FLYING around in the sky was not FUN for me anymore. Then I created CrazyHousePlanes. Now i can fly in different sceneries avoiding all kind of obstacles and FIGHT for win in multiplayer battles.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 Onslaught VR
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Jump into the fray with Onslaught VR! Armed with multiple gun types, devastating AOE attacks, and aerial capabilities, you'll face off against multiple enemies and powerful commanders. Good luck, soldier... you'll need it.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #31 Asteroid Girl
77% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: BTNcafe
Windows
Help the cute asteroid girl conquer the universe.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #32 Blind Blades
78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Heavy Key Studios
Windows · Mac
The art of the sword is death by one stroke. The art of stealth is proximity with the unaware. In Blind Blades, players must master both. No special button combinations. No life bars. Just player against player. Skill against skill. Winner take all.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #33 Bud Blitz
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Dave Brake Creations
Windows · Mac
Bud Blitz is a fast-paced cannabis-themed action/arcade game with a splash of simulation. Grow your way to the top of the leaderboard while defending your crops from enemies by using a variety of outrageous weapons!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #34 GRAY GROFA
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #35 Tech Clash
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interstellar PunksPub: ESAT
Windows
In the far future huge companies compete for the control of the technological market, in this mayhem the CEOs of the biggest companies reunite and decide to fight it off in a tournament! Each company will provide a champion in what would be the fight of the century!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #36 Rubicon Approach
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carbon Fiber Games
Windows
Rubicon Approach is a fast paced zero gravity shooter with a unique free movement system. Engage an enemy team in high speed, adrenaline fueled action across multiple maps.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #37 Fatal Velocity: Physics Combat
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Range Plus One Inc.
Windows
Fatal Velocity: Physics Combat is a multiplayer first person physics combat smasher where speed and the environment are literally your weapons! Players utilize physics based weaponry and abilities to overcome, thrash and smash their opponents with extreme speeds into oblivion!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #38 Attack of the Gooobers
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: SluggishtacoGames
Windows
Grab some friends or play alone and prepare to defend yourself from the Goobers in "Attack Of The Goobers!" Choose between multiple classes with unique abilities to survive the attack. Customize your characters stats and appearance to play how you like. Purchase weapons to defend yourself from the Goobers.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #39 Deep End
75% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Red Line Reality
Windows
The Deep End is a parkour platformer with entire room scale gameplay, experience virtual reality like never before as you climb, jump and run through 10 expansive levels. Only one rule, don't fall in the pool.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #40 Elly The Jelly
74% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Seize Studios
Windows · Mac
Are you ready for the Jelly? Get this awesome Party Game where you have to take your (former)friends out of the arena! Shoot pieces of yourself and use several items!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #41 Exostorm
76% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2015
Dev: Midnight Oil Games, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A classic top-down vertical scrolling "shoot-em-up" with amazing music and art.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #42 Space Cruise
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Ben RobinsonPub: So and So Games
Windows
Space Cruise is a hybrid of both metroidvania style platforming and traditional bullet-hell gameplay, allowing the player to choose which play style resonates with them most for each run. With power-ups for both methods of gameplay, randomised levels on the branching paths, and leaving the final decision to the player, each run should...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #43 AngelShooter
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: DeepChensGames
Windows · Mac
《AngelShooter》 is a high difficulty bitmap horizontal-scroll shooting game. There are 6 different levels in the game. You will control the angels to pursue the witch's footprint who destroyed the world, all the way to defeat all kinds of enemies and finally the witch.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #44 Weird creatures
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: mchernykh
Windows
Blow-up your mind with the easy fantasy shooting simulator. You will travel across forests, deserts and snowy mountains, accompanied by a powerful ally vehicle to care of. Various weird inhabitants resist you to collect art pieces. Ever struggle to be rewarded.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #45 Private Detective Punch Drunk
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Dogwood Gaming
Windows
Punch your way through ten levels of noir beat'em up with a video game twist.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #46 VHSoverdose
72% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: CallThePolices
Windows
VHSoverdose is an unrelenting assault of outlandish action, served up with thick juicy slice of anatomical annihilation! Set inside of the confides of a simple 80's Arcade Machine... Or is it?
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #47 BHB: BioHazard Bot
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Brain Machine
Windows
You are BHB. A BioHazard Bot. Your mission: decontaminate. When alien creatures overrun a research facility, robotic drones known as BioHazard bots are deployed to deal with a situation too dangerous for regular decontamination crews.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #48 TimeCluster
73% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Vokana Technology, Inc
Windows
Protect the past, save the future.TimeCluster is a first person VR shooter. In each mission you are sent back in time to protect villagers in a medieval town where the Order of the Grand Eulidians is born. In the future they govern over the known galaxy. An alien race is bent on preventing their creation.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #49 Zombie Parking
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 115 reviews2016
Dev: XPAGAME
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Computer indie-game in the genre of third-person shooter and survival horror.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #50 The War of the Worlds: Andromeda
69% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2018
Pub: Mediamas Europa
Windows · Linux
The world is over, get up and start the battle of revenge! With the first-person shooter of The War of the Worlds: Andromeda, load your weapons and lead your team to fight through swarms of fierce aliens. Turn the battle around through 14 epic levels of brutal combat, based on the world of H.G. Wells.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #51 Prototype-CUBE
67% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Enzian Game Development Team
Windows
Using Sword and Bullet, while evading the barrage and swords, running stylishly through the buggy chess world, High difficulty level exhilarating action 3D shooting game!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #52 BeeBeeQ
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #53 Quip Anomaly
69% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: mentics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Quip Anomaly is a deep space dodge 'em up game. Guide Virnu to dodge hazards, acquire research, and obtain power ups. As you unlock each level, you will learn more about Virnu and her story.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #54 XENOCAVE
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BLUE LED
Windows
XENOCAVE is a retro-styled, scrolling platformer that elevates the genre with a unique fusion of ability and fine-tuned mechanics inspired by the classics. Specifically, imagine an amalgam of Mario's fluid controls, the double-jump and rapid-fire of Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the themes of Crystal Caves.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #55 Red Hot Ricochet
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Wyatt YeongPub: Everook
Windows · Mac
It's high noon in this barren wasteland, and only one of you is making it out alive. Sure, you could try and shoot them right between the eyes - but where's the fun in that? Red Hot Ricochet is an intense game of ricochet duels, and you'll need wise shooting, lucky bounces, and a bit of triggernometry to win.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #56 Escape Lizards
68% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #57 The Necromancer's Castle
72% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Stone Axe Games
Windows
The Necromancer's Castle is a sidescroller where you play as a wizard trying to get back a stolen magic diamond from an evil necromancer. You will be stuck in rooms with enemies chasing you, and you have to defeat them all to get to the next one.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #58 STARCATCHER
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: John PlewePub: Nevercenter
Windows · Mac
STARCATCHER is an experimental wave-based arcade game, currently in development. It's simple, unique, and intensely hard. Protect the heart!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%